Friday, July 31, 2015

Stabbing by
ultra-orthodox fanatic of pride parade participants, assault of
demonstrators by private goons, hired by tycoons... and strange
failure of the security forces of the total security state in both
cases...

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Jerusalem, July 30 – tonight was the
Jewish love day. It was marked by two very different events – both
marred by violence, and both raising questions about police and
security forces conduct. Both events started around 6:00 pm about
500 yards from each other in the Mamilla complex in the center of
Jerusalem.

Pride and Tolerance parade

The event was secured by massive Israel
Police forces, given the history of violence against Pride parades in
Jerusalem in past years, including the stabbing of participants in
2005. That was also the reason for the inclusion of “Tolerance”
in the name of the Jerusalem event. The event was clearly different
from its Tel-Aviv counterpart by the participation of various,
organized political groups, mostly left-wing, and its generally much
more conservative nature.

Pics: Launch ares of the Pride and
Tolerance parade. Participants included various organized political,
mostly left-wing groups, and the event was much more conservative
than its Tel-Aviv counterpart. Heavy police forces were on location.

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Pics: Stabbing attack by Schlissel
today (Yediot); Schlissel's arrest after the stabbings of Pride parade
participants on July 30, 2015, and in 2005.

(Haaretz) Late night demonstration after the stabbings, "pride, no fear".

The event ended with with 6
participants being stabbed by an orthodox Jewish fanatic, Yishai
Schlissel. Two of the victims were seriously wounded.

Schlissel is the same person, who
stabbed Pride parade participants in Jerusalem 10 years ago, and was
only recently released from prison. According to media, immediately
after his release, he started inciting for violence in order to
prevent this year's Jerusalem parade from taking place, including
posting street notes calling for violence, and interview with an
ultra-orthodox radio show. [i]

In a total security state, the fact
that no measures were taken against Schlissel, in view of such open
incitement for violence, must raise serious questions. It
immediately brings to mind the failure, or even collusion of Jewish
division of the Shin-Bet in the case of prime minister Rabin
assassination in 1995. [ii]

The stabbings in the Jerusalem Pride
parade also undermined that pink-washing efforts of the Israeli
government, trying to present Israel as a tolerant, civil society,
through the widely advertised Pride events in Tel-Aviv. [iii]

Pic:
Nighttime demonstration after the stabbings in the Pride and
Tolerance parade.

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Direct action by an anti-banksters
group

The small demonstration was conducted
in front of the nearby Mamilla Hotel – where the families of two
tycoons, Yitzak Tshuva and Zion Keynan were united through the
matrimony of their kids. The event was dubbed by the demonstrators
“The Wedding of Thieves”... The group notes the actions of the
banksters and tycoons against families, which do not spare their
kids, and therefore aims at disrupting the routine lives of tycoons
and their direct family members through demonstrations, wherever they
appear.

Pics: “Wedding
of Thieves” demonstration in Jerusalem by an anti-banksters direct
action group.

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Yitzhak Tshuva is one of a handful of
Israeli tycoons, [iv]
who according to former Israeli Treasury Minister Lapid, control the
economic policies of the Israeli government. Lapid, who was elected
on a reformist agenda on the wave of social protest of 2011-2, made
such statements only after the collapse of the previous government,
in order to justify his failure to perform...

Tshuva gained notoriety with the
Israeli social protest movement, particularly for two main reasons:

The
violent eviction of families of a small Tel-Aviv neighborhood, which
was sold to him by the government for the development of high rise
luxury apartments. [v]

Being a key player in the gas
monopoly, which in collusion with US-based Noble Energy gained
control over Israel's newly discovered, off shore natural gas
fields. Regardless of decision by Israel's top anti-trust
regulator, Netanyahu and his Neo-liberal team are determined
maintain the monopoly. [vi]

Tzion Keynan is the top executive of
Bank HaPoalim, Israel's largest bank, controlled by the Arison tycoon
family. [vii]
Former top executive of the bank, Dan Dankner, served a prison term
for bank fraud. The bank is also notorious for its rampant fraud on
debtors in the courts, similar to the foreclosure fraud crisis in the
United States. [viii]

More recently, Keynan gained notoriety
for a bizarre gag order on the direct action group leader, Attorney
Barak Cohen, issued through a nighttime hearing in the Tel-Aviv bomb
shelter, off the court calendar... [ix]
Likewise, a small news item, pertaining to the planned direct action
event tonight was removed from the internet, according to the group -
after threats on the news outlet by Keynan's operatives. [x]

The demonstrators initially numbered
only about 5 activists, and later no more than 20. There was only one
policeman on location, but about 20 goons, apparently hired by the
tycoons, most of them in security company uniform, but some in plain
clothes. The demonstrators stood on the sidewalk - public space,
carried signs “Wedding of the Thieves”, and yelled, but were
disciplined and deliberately non-violent. Some of the wedding party
guests looked down from time to time from the high-rise rooftop, but
otherwise, there was practically no direct contact or confrontation
between the demonstrators and the event participants.

Regardless, at one point, the goons
decided to bring the demonstration to an end, and assaulted the
demonstrators. One female demonstrator was pushed into the heavy
traffic of the nearby city street by one of the plain-clothed goons.
Luckily she was not hurt. The goons started chasing the
demonstrators through nearby streets, trying to take away their
megaphones.

The lone policeman on location
responded to the situation by claiming that the area was declared
“Security Zone”, and that the demonstrators must leave. The
demonstrators did not leave, though, and additional police van, which
arrived following the assault, did not repeat, what was apparently a
far-fetched fabrication.

The conduct of police, in particular
the lack of police presence, leaving the arena for private goons to
assault demonstrators, was most likely coordinated in advance with
police. After all, Tshuva is known for hiring scores of high level
former government officers, among them senior regulators and 2 former
Israel Police chief commanders... [xi]
And corruption of the top brass of Israel Police has become a
critical issue in recent years... [xii]

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Close to midnight, on the bus back to
Tel-Aviv, two women were arguing. An orthodox Jewish woman said that
the day's events showed that there was no place for the Pride parade
in Jerusalem, since “there are a lot of very sensitive people in
Jerusalem, who are really hurt by it.” She concluded that such
events should be permitted in Tel-Aviv only. The other young woman,
still wearing her parade feather head-dress, asks her: “So
sensitive that they must to go on a stabbing rampage?”

A man was wondering, how it came to be,
that the stabber hadn't been shot to death by the Israel Police swat
team on location. That has been the routine procedure relative to
Palestinians in similar incidents in recent years, and the former
internal security minister even condoned the practice, praising
security, who chased and shot to death a Palestinian "The action
of the Border Police officer who chased after the assailant and
quickly killed him was correct and professional and that is how we
want these incidents to end. “ [xiii]

The day's events
clearly show the failure of the Israeli government to maintain even
the semblance of the rule of law and peace and welfare, regardless of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how far-removed the situation
in Jerusalem is from what was intended in its designation by
international law as Corpus Separatum Jerusalem. [xiv]

Bulldozers
were already standing ready to demolish the tiny Bedouin village of
Susya earlier this week. However, strong European pressure made the
Israeli government re-think its actions. With the unfolding of the
Eurasian Century, it appears more likely...

Joseph ZernikGenerally,
Netanyahu's yielding to international pressure may speed up the
collapse of his shaky right-wing coalition. His entire election
campaign was based on advertising himself as a "strong leader", who
would enhance Jewish settlements and prevent...See More

Joseph Zernik2015-07-27 PALESTINE: Ski-masked soldiers - a cardinal sign of a hard totalitarian regime=================Israeli
soldiers in Palestine now routinely don ski masks, even in the
scorching summer heat, like fascist militias in the Ukraine. The only
explanation is in deliberate intent to engage in violations of Human
Rights and escape accountability. In the pic - IDF soldier in a routine
road block in Palestine.

Joseph ZernikThere
is another interesting story, going on for months, which I consider
writing about: Netanyahu effectively working for Noble Energy, against
the interests of the State of Israel... I assume that you are aware
that Wikileaks Startfor leak showed that Netanyahu has been a "source" for this CIA contractor... even in recent years...In short: The family feud between Obama and Netanyahu, played out by MSM, is mostly a show...http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-stratfor-emails...

Joseph ZernikLikewise,
Stanley Fischer, now No 2 at the Fed, was imported to Israel by
Netanyahu, to head the Bank of Israel - Israel's central bank. In
Israel Fischer acted for the interests of the US surveillance/security
apparatus, and against the interests of the State of Israel. Of
course there is nothing new there either... Economics Nobel prize
winner Joseph Stiglitz suggested that Fischer worked on behalf of US
agencies in IMF, when he deliberately caused the collapse of the
Argentinian economy in 2001. In
Israel too, Fischer created a US-style real-estate bubble, that
nobody knows how to get out of now... and between his job in Israel and
his job at the Fed, Fischer relaxed as a Special Fellow at the Council
for Foreign Relations...http://www.opednews.com/.../Governor-of-Bank-of-Israel-by...

The Israeli courts have
experienced unprecedented corruption over the past decade, and fraud in
development, implementation and operation of the new IT systems is
central to it.

Director of the Courts, Judge Michael Spitzer

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OccupyTLV, July 29 - Judge
Michael Spitzer, Director of the Courts, was asked to address reports of
"lack of integrity" and "fraud" in IT systems of the Israeli courts,
developed and implemented over the past decade under the authority of
the Administration of Courts. Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert
(NGO), filed the request with Judge Spitzer as part of the process of
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Human Rights in Israel by the UN
Human Rights Council.

In his letter to Judge Spitzer
(copied below), Dr Zernik notes that it now midway through the 4-year
cycle of the UN Human Rights Council UPR. Therefore, he requests Judge
Spitzer's response on the note, included in the 2013 UPR Professional
Staff Report, regarding "lack of integrity in the electronic record
systems... of the courts in Israel".

The note in the 2013 UN UPR
Report refers to the Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human
Rights, which details the development, implementation and operation of
new IT systems, lacking in integrity, in the Supreme Court, the district
courts and the detainees courts.

The request also refers to a
recent report, published by the European Conference on e-Government,
subject to international academic peer review, regarding "Fraudulent,
new IT systems of the Israeli courts..."

The request also asks regarding corrective measures intended by the Administration of Courts, if any.

The Administration of Courts confirmed receipt of the request.

Dr Zernik's work was noted in a
textbook on "Machine Learning", relative to the application of data
mining methods in studying Human Rights violation, by identifying
invalid and fraudulent government records, particularly in IT systems of
the courts and prisons.

RE: Request for response regarding design, implementation, and operation of IT systems of the Israeli courts.

Your response within 45 days is kindly requested.

Dear Judge Spitzer:

As
part of follow up, midway through the 4-year cycle of the Universal
Periodic Review (UPR) of Human Rights in Israel by the UN Human Rights
Council (HRC), I herein request your response, as Director of the
Administration of Courts, regarding: “Lack of integrity in the
electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts, and
detainees courts in Israel”. [i] Such note was part of the 2013 HRC UPR
Professional Staff Report, which incorporated by reference the Human
Rights Alert (HRA NGO) submission for the UPR of the State of Israel.
(Attached: HRA NGO Short Submission [ii] and Appendix I [iii])

More
recently, a paper was accepted for publication and presentation by the
European Conference on e-Government, titled: “Fraudulent, new IT systems
of the Israeli courts – announced regime change?” (Attached [iv]). The
conference included a special channel for e-Justice, and the paper was
accepted following anonymous, international, academic peer review and an
additional procedure (probably due to its unusual title), involving the
keynote speakers of the conference – internationally acclaimed,
academic experts in the field of IT systems.

In
case you find validity in any of the failures of IT systems of the
Israeli courts, which are documented in the attached reports, please
also indicate, what corrective measures are intended, if any.

The
attached reports only address the failures, which were discovered and
documented through system analysis and data mining. The effect of such
IT systems on the administration of justice in individual cases has been
separately studied through a series of court cases, in preparation for
the next UPR. The next HRA NGO UPR submission would be forwarded for
your comments at a future date, prior to its submission to the HRC.

About the writer:

Dr
Zernik's reports in the area of IT systems and Human Rights were
incorporated into Universal Periodic Review reports of the United
Nations Human Rights Council regarding:

The
United States (2010), with the note: “Corruption of the courts and the
legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California”;

The
State of Israel (2013) with the note: “Lack of integrity in the
electronic records of the supreme court, the district courts and the
detainees courts in Israel”, and

The
United States (2015) with the note: “HRA NGO recommended restoring the
integrity of the IT systems of the courts, under accountability to the
Congress, with the goal of making such systems as transparent as
possible to the public at large.”

A
textbook on "Machine Learning" found Dr Zernik's application of
data-mining in Human Rights research among "Notable uses", and
summarized it as follows: [v]

Data
mining of government records - particularly records of the justice
system (i.e., courts, prisons) - enables the discovery of systemic human
rights violations in connection to generation and publication of
invalid or fraudulent legal records by various government agencies.
[vi,vii]

Surely, you would recognize the significance of the matter, and I look forward to receiving your response.

Truly,

Joseph Zernik, PhD

Human Rights Alert (NGO)

OccupyTLV

CC:

Activists, Israeli civil society organizations, scholars in Israel and abroad, Israeli elected and government officials.

i.
2013-01-01 UN Human Rights Council UPR Professional Staff Report,
including the note "Lack of integrity in the electronic records of the
Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel"
(page 4, paragraph 25)

iv.
2015-06-18 Zernik, J., “Fraudulent New IT Systems of the Israeli Courts
– Unannounced Regime Change?” Proceedings of the 15th European
Conference on e-Government, University of Portsmouth, UK, pp 331-340,
2015.

11-12-10 Where should Occupy go next? Civil Disobedience in the footsteps of Thoreau and Gandhi!http:// www.scribd.com/doc/75348301/12-06-08 Courts and Judges as racketeering enterprises under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - key element in the current financial crisishttp://www.scribd.com/doc/96504009/Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable...

What did the experts say?

* דוח סייג לזכויות האדם נכלל בדוח התקופתי של האו"ם לגבי זכויות האדם בישראל (2013), בלוויית ההערה: "חוסר יושרה בכתבים האלקטרוניים של בית המשפט העליון, בתי המשפט המחוזיים, ובתי הדין למוחזקי משמורת בישראל".* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review Report regarding Humnan Rights in the United States, with the note: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California".* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review Report regarding Humnan Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

The United States

* "...it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history... where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School

* Los Angeles County is"the epicenter of the epidemic of real estate and mortgage fraud."FBI (2004)

* “…judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."Prof David Burcham, Loyola Law School, LA (2000)

* “This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states… and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted.”Prof Erwin Chemerinksy, Irvine Law School (2000)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/239647129/The HRA submission was incorporated into the 2015 HRC Professional Staff Report on the United States with the note: :“HRA NGO recommended restoring the integrity of the IT systems of the courts, under accountability to the Congress, with the goal of making such systems as transparent as possible to the public at large.”

[2] Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2013 UPR of the State of Israel was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with the note: "Lack of integrity in the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees' courts in Israel".

2012-06-04 Human Right Alert's Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the

[3] Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2010 UPR of the United States was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with the note: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."

2010-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the

2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report:

[1] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/